He was educated at Balham Grammar School in London, Sir John Leman High School in Beccles, Suffolk, and Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street.

::* St Jude's Church, Balham, London

** 1994-Curate Andrew White leads a team from St Mark's to Ascension Church, Balham

His full name was Donald John Cockell and he was born on 22 September 1928 in Balham, London, the son of Mary Cockell, a domestic servant from Battersea.

* Platform 1: four trains per hour to Victoria Station via Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park.

* 2 tph to London Bridge, calling at Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common, Balham, Streatham Hill, West Norwood, Gipsy Hill, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Forest Hill, Honor Oak Park, Brockley and New Cross Gate

Trains serve a variety of destinations including Central London ( with Waterloo, Victoria & London Bridge served ), Clapham Junction, Wimbledon, Worcester Park, Balham, West Croydon, Sutton, Leatherhead, Effingham Junction, Guildford, Dorking and Horsham.

* 2 to London Victoria, calling at Purley Oaks, South Croydon, East Croydon, Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Norbury, Streatham Common, Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park ( faster services to Clapham Junction and London Victoria are available by changing at East Croydon )

** 4 via Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Norbury, Streatham Common, Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park, taking 22 minutes.

** 2 via Norwood Junction, Crystal Palace, Gipsy Hill, West Norwood, Streatham Hill, Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park, taking 31 minutes.

The Balham wards became part of Battersea South while Streatham Park ( location of the Streatham Conservative Club ) and the remainder of Furzedown ward went into Tooting.

The Clapham Park area and Hyde Farm ( commonly thought of as part of Balham ) came into the Streatham seat, whereas the rest of Clapham went into the Vauxhall seat-a split which continues to the present.

As well as Tooting itself, it also includes the districts of Earlsfield, Furzedown and Streatham Park and part of Balham ( that part broadly west of the railway line, but also including the streets around Nightingale Square ).

* Balham: Balham, Battersea Park, Battersea West, Clapham Common, Earlsfield, Tooting, Tooting Bec, Wandsworth, Wandsworth East Hill.

* 1940 – Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.

Margaret Rutherford was born in 1892 in Balham, the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his second wife Florence, née Nicholson.

Balham () is a popular neighbourhood of South West London, England, and is part of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

The Balham area has been settled since Saxon times.

Balham is recorded in several maps in the 1600s as Ballam or Balham Hill or Balham Manor.

Large country retreats for the affluent classes were built there in the 18th century ; however, most development occurred after the opening of Balham railway station on the line to Crystal Palace in 1856.

On 14 October 1940 Balham tube station was involved in bombing raids which took place in London during World War II.

Most of Balham is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, although the SW12 postcode, coterminous with Balham, includes the Hyde Farm area east of Cavendish Road within Lambeth.

The southern part of Balham, towards Tooting Bec, near the 1930s block of flats called Du Cane Court and the area to the south of Wandsworth Common, comes under the SW17 postcode.

The Heaver Estate lies to the south of Balham on its border with Tooting.

Balham is situated between four south London commons: Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common to the south, and the adjoining Tooting Bec Common to the east – the latter two historically distinct areas are referred to by both Wandsworth Council and some local people as Tooting Common.

There is also a large Sainsbury's supermarket in the centre of Balham with its own car park and 181 spaces.

The first Balham Food Festival took place from 10 to 14 July 2011, featuring a range of events including restaurant taster menus, a hog roast and a Jamaican cookery demonstrations.

The Polish population in Balham has hugely increased since 2006, though Balham has been one of the centres of the community in London since World War II.

Today the Somali, Pakistani and Brazilian communities are also well represented in the wards making up modern Balham.

Balham, Gateway to the South is a comedy sketch performed by Peter Sellers and written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden as part of a BBC radio series called Third Division.

The Bedford Hill area of Balham was associated with street prostitution throughout the 1970s and ' 80s.

Balham has its own library and leisure centre.

Oak Lodge School is a secondary school for deaf children ( aged 11 to 19 ) located in the Balham area.

Balham has a railway / tube interchange station, Balham tube station and Balham railway station, in zone 3.

The City of Yarra was formed in 1994 as a result of the amalgamation of the former Cities of Richmond, Collingwood, Fitzroy and part of Carlton North, formerly part of the City of Melbourne and parts of Alphington and Fairfield, previously part of the former City of Northcote.

* 567 Northcote – Regent &# 32 ; via Fairfield RS, Northland SC &# 32 ;( every day ).

* 508 Moonee Ponds – Alphington &# 32 ; via Brunswick West, Brunswick RS, Northcote, Fairfield &# 32 ;( every day ).

* 567 Northcote – Regent &# 32 ; via Fairfield RS, Northland SC &# 32 ;( every day ).

It flows through, or forms a part of the borders between the suburbs of Wallan, Kalkallo, Donnybrook, Craigieburn, Wollert, Epping, Somerton, Campbellfield, Lalor, Thomastown, Fawkner, Reservoir, Coburg North, Coburg, Preston, Thornbury, Brunswick East, Northcote, Westgarth, Fitzroy North, Clifton Hill and Fairfield before meeting the Yarra River just upstream of Dights Falls.

* 508 Moonee Ponds – Alphington &# 32 ; via Brunswick West, Brunswick RS, Northcote, Fairfield &# 32 ;( every day ).

* 508 Moonee Ponds – Alphington &# 32 ; via Brunswick West, Brunswick RS, Northcote, Fairfield &# 32 ;( every day ).